A comprehensive and crowd-sourced list of games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine.
Anti-cheat software is fundamentally at odds with the idea “the computer is yours, it belongs to you, and it should do what you say, whether or not other people like it.”
To make an anti cheat system, you are explicitly making a program that is trying to subvert the wishes of the end user.
Not being allowed to punch people in the face is also at odds with someone who really likes punching people in the face.
I’ve always liked gaming on Linux for the challenge of getting it to work and to not have Windows talking up precious hd space. And let’s face it, i like to play the fun game where i spend half an hour trying to get the controller to work again, which is just part of the experience i say. I could see folks wanting to express their technical skills by pwning those Windows gamers with cheats, but i like to reserve that special energy for the computer itself, setting up my 19 year old Logitech controller.
Imagine celebrating that spyware can now run on Linux
Spyware could always run on Linux. People are celebrating this particular piece of spyware because installing it enables them to accomplish one of their goals, which is to play games online with strangers with limited cheating. I don’t play these games so I won’t be in any hurry to install anti-cheat software, but I don’t blame anyone for doing it.
